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Oh yes, a trip down memory lane... some notes: > Commodore produced a great many Amiga models, but for several years the gold standard was an Amiga 500 expande
by rob74 4y ago
Oh yes, a trip down memory lane... some notes:
> Commodore produced a great many Amiga models, but for several years the gold standard was an Amiga 500 expanded with half a meg of RAM (bringing the total to a full megabyte) and an external floppy drive (bringing the total number to two).
These memory expansion cards went into the "expansion trapdoor" at the bottom of the A500 and most of them included an RTC - without that, you had to enter the date and time at every startup (of course only if you cared for your files having correct timestamps and other such stuff). I had one of those before I got a "Power PC Board" (https://mingos-commodorepage.com/sammlung/erweiterungen_detail.php?rubtable=sammlung_erweiterungen&id=35&detailf=erweiterungen_detail&title=KCS%20Power%20PC%20Board&listtype=icondetail https://mingos-commodorepage.com/sammlung/erweiterungen_deta...) because I needed something MS-DOS-compatible. The good thing was: when the "PC" wasn't in use, it not only doubled as a 512 KB expansion + RTC, but you also had a whopping 512 KB RAM Disk where you could copy some often-used programs to reduce floppy disk swapping.
> Fred Fish's AmigaLibDisks
Of course everyone (except maybe Fred Fish himself) called them "Fish Disks"...
- snvzz 4y ago>and most of them included an RTC If you have one of these around, please remove the expansion and cut the battery off before it damages the expansion and possibly the Amiga too.
- neffo 4y agoIt's a common misconception that the A501 expansion included an RTC - it was actually a time bomb.